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Special series for Chelsea – how to get your mojo back – part 5
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - May 23, 2024 23:01 - 12 minutesWhat can you learn from having a garden buzzing with life and apply to your own life and buzz with life –insights that are especially useful when you’ve lost your mojo or life is feeling very flat or even stressful? You’ll find more about the 7 keys to having a buzzing life in the following po...
Special series for Chelsea – how to get your mojo back – part 4
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - May 22, 2024 23:01 - 11 minutesWhat can you learn from having a garden buzzing with life and apply to your own life and buzz with life –insights that are especially useful when you’ve lost your mojo or life is feeling very flat or even stressful? You’ll find more about the 7 keys to having a buzzing life in the following po...
Special series for Chelsea – how to get your mojo back – part 3
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - May 21, 2024 23:01 - 8 minutesWhat can you learn from having a garden buzzing with life and apply to your own life and buzz with life –insights that are especially useful when you’ve lost your mojo or life is feeling very flat or even stressful? You’ll find more about the 7 keys to having a buzzing life in the following po...
Special series for Chelsea – how to get your mojo back – part 2
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - May 20, 2024 23:01 - 9 minutesWhat can you learn from having a garden buzzing with life and apply to your own life and buzz with life –insights that are especially useful when you’ve lost your mojo or life is feeling very flat or even stressful? You’ll find more about the 7 keys to having a buzzing life in the following po...
Special series for Chelsea – how to get your mojo back – part 1
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - May 19, 2024 23:01 - 10 minutesWhat can you learn from having a garden buzzing with life and apply to your own life and buzz with life –insights that are especially useful when you’ve lost your mojo or life is feeling very flat or even stressful? You’ll find more about the 7 keys to having a buzzing life in the followin...
Special episode for Earth Day
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - April 21, 2024 23:01 - 23 minutesIn an episode from the archives (#46) today’s episode shares two poems I’ve written about our relationship with the Earth and then turn that inwards and explore how that relationship is a mirror for our relationship with ourselves. A reminder of our own brilliance and uniqueness that’s been damp...
Special episode: How to stop life feeling like groundhog day
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - February 02, 2024 00:01 - 6 minutesIt’s Groundhog Day and if you’re using the idiom to describe how you’re feeling then why not try this 5-minute technique to release the feeling and help you get you back on track. If after listening you would like more information just sign up for the Landscaping Your Life newsletter and the l...
Please join me for a online live event!
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - November 01, 2023 10:49 - 2 minutesJoin us at 6pm UK time on Monday, 13th November for an evening with Alison Smith. If you feel like you're talking to a brick wall in an area of your life, why not come along for this live, virtual event on Zoom. Alison will be using her poem 'Talking to the brick wall' as a basis for an ...
#64 Drawing a line in the sand
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - October 01, 2023 23:01 - 19 minutesTo conclude series three we’re exploring ‘How do you draw a line in the sand and stop yourself from going back to your old way of behaving or relating to someone as you have on previous drawings of the line’? To help you get back on track we’ll be doing this using nature’s landscapes as a met...
#63 How to stop the circling
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - September 17, 2023 23:01 - 6 minutesAs a postscript to episode 36 Alison shares some additional insights to help stop you going round in circles in your life. She’s also written a poem on the subject which you’ll hear at the end of this very short episode. You’ll find all links mentioned, details of the Can’t see the wood for th...
#62 How to come out of the shadows
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - September 10, 2023 23:00 - 26 minutesIf you know you need to come out of the shadows in an area in your life you may it helpful to join Alison in nature and explore being in the shadows and non-shadows to get a sense as she does about your relationship to them both and to understand what stepping out of the shadows might require fr...
#61 What to do when you’re at a deadend in your life
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - September 03, 2023 23:01 - 14 minutesIf you wanted evidence that words have power then the use of deadend for this episode provided evidence of distractions, disruptions and avoidance at every turn – something I think we do when heading for a dead end because it’s always an end to something – even if by its very nature it’s also th...
#60 How to influence others then you feel like you're talking to a brick wall
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - August 27, 2023 23:01 - 7 minutesAfter a very successful workshop entitled ‘Talk to the brick wall – how to influence those you’re struggling with’ I wanted to add a few postscripts to an earlier episode of the podcast and share a poem I’ve written on the subject. You’ll find all links mentioned and the poem here https://www....
#59 Happy 5th Birthday Can’t see the wood for the trees
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - August 21, 2023 11:01 - 14 minutesIt’s 5 years this month since Can’t See the wood for the Trees – landscaping your life to get back on track was first published. Its content has helped inform the structure of all of the podcast episodes. Do have a listen and see whether a snippet from one of the chapters might be just what wi...
#58 If your problem was a landscape what sort of landscape would it be
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - August 13, 2023 23:00 - 24 minutesRather than venture outside into nature and the rainy weather for this episode Alison uses drawing as another means of using nature as a metaphor for a problem you’re grappling with. So, get your pens and paper ready and be open to something a little unconventional to enable that breakthrough yo...
#57 How to go for a walk and find solutions to a problem you’re grappling with
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - August 06, 2023 23:01 - 27 minutesIn the majority of episodes Alison invites us to join her to find solutions in a landscape that represents how we’re feeling whether that’s when we can’t see the wood for the trees #28, are treading water #23, or life feels like an uphill struggle #25. In today’s episode she shares with us a mor...
#56 What not to do when testing the water about a situation in your life
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - July 30, 2023 23:01 - 18 minutesIf you’re thinking about testing the water about something you’d like to do in your life you may want to have a listen and see what insight you can get as you hear me testing the water at St Andrews beach, Fife - because it’s the unexpected that can catch us out. You’ll find the podcast episod...
#55 Stop planting more trees in your life
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - July 23, 2023 23:01 - 9 minutesWhy it is when we can’t see the wood for the trees, are overwhelmed and already too busy with too much to think about we keep planting more trees. In this episode we explore why we wouldn’t do this in nature and why it’s counterproductive in our own lives too. You’ll find the words of the poem...
#54 How to get beyond the story you’re telling and see the situation from a higher vantage point?
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - July 16, 2023 23:01 - 20 minutesWhen we’re caught up in the story we’re telling it can be hard to see the wood for the trees and identify a strategy or action plan for getting unstuck and back on track. That’s when taking to a higher vantage point to see all 360 degrees of options comes in, and that’s what we explore in more d...
#53 Do you need to let the mud settle before taking action?
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - July 09, 2023 23:01 - 8 minutesIt’s perhaps a little too easy to get frustrated when things aren’t happening as quickly as we’d like – however nature teaches us that patience and timing are everything – sometimes we just need to let the mud settle, or wait for the next tide before we get the clarity we need. You’ll find the...
#52 Stop walking half a path and commit to the whole path
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - July 03, 2023 09:09 - 25 minutesAn exploration in nature of my belief that “It doesn’t matter how long or short a path we walk as long as we commit to walking the whole of it.” An episode that provides the insight needed to commit to a goal and not go back and forth worrying it might not be the right one. https://www.alison...
#51 From not knowing to knowing what to do
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - June 25, 2023 23:00 - 21 minutesNot knowing what to do can be frustrating – not least if you’ve circled around not knowing what to do for some time. That’s where the Landscaping Your Life toolkit can really help. Today’s episode shares more about how to use the toolkit to help you move from not knowing to knowing what to d...
#50 Using nature as our coach - where it all started
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - June 18, 2023 23:00 - 23 minutesThe podcast is two years old this week and to celebrate I thought I’d share more about where the idea came from to use nature as a metaphor for our lives, and also a few of my favourite examples of the sorts of solutions people have found by taking a problem they’re grappling with out into natu...
#49 What to do when you don’t know what to do
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - May 07, 2023 23:00 - 3 minutesShort and sweet again this week. Due to unexpected family issues today’s episode simply shares two poems that have helped me in recent weeks to sit with the ambiguity when I haven’t known what to do. Do let me know what you think. You’ll find the words of the poems, my book, and how to s...
#48 What to do when you’re beating yourself up
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - April 30, 2023 23:00 - 3 minutesShort and sweet today. Due to unexpected family issues today’s episode revisits the I reclaim all my parts poem shared in more detail in episode #45 with reference to episode #29 where you’re asked to put the stick down you’re beating yourself up with. You’ll find the words of the poem, my boo...
#47 What to do when you’re disappointed with lack of progress
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - April 23, 2023 23:00 - 19 minutesToday’s episode helps you when you’re feeling disappointed with the progress you’re making – you may even feel like giving up because all the effort is seemingly getting you nowhere. I’ll be sharing 2 poems and a short story inspired by the sea that I’ve written to help you to see the situatio...
#46 Earth Day: the day the Earth cried
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - April 16, 2023 23:00 - 23 minutesToday’s episode shares two poems I’ve written about our relationship with the Earth and then turn that inwards and explore how that relationship is a mirror for our relationship with ourselves. A reminder of our own brilliance and uniqueness that’s been dampened by all the musts, oughts and sho...
#45 An uprooting & lack of confidence in myself
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - April 09, 2023 23:00 - 29 minutesToday’s episode provides insight when you’re feeling ungrounded, out of sorts and lacking confidence in yourself. Where that ungroundedness is providing a disconnect between you and your life. Or you may simply want a different perspective about a situation you’re grappling with. You’ll ...
#44 Paths or destination that is the question
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - April 02, 2023 23:01 - 28 minutesToday’s episode uses the premise that when you’re stuck and don’t know what to do it’s often about the paths and destinations – you may not be clear about the destination or goal, or you’re not on the right path to get to your destination or perhaps you’re even judging the path you’re on because...
#43 Stand in nature and hear your inner wisdom’s whispers
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith - March 27, 2023 00:01 - 18 minutesToday we dive straight into the heart of Landscaping Your Life – using nature as a means of hearing your own inner wisdom. You’re asked to consider “if your life was a landscape what type of landscape would it be?” and to “stand in nature and see your own inner wisdom reflected back at you” ...
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